Can anyone recommend some decent music from the 90s? I've been trying to have more knowledge of music from before I was born and before my first memories of music but out of all the decades, the 90s seems to be the hardest to find music for, other than all the well known dance tracks.

I know lots of popular dance/house music from the 90s and I also know/remember pop songs from about 1998 but not before that and that's it. Would love any more obscure great dance tracks, any good pop songs from before 98, alternative, r&b, just anything really.

Hi Lexii-Mae

Here are some of my favourite 90s tracks:
Creep - Radiohead
Return of the Mack - Mark Morrison
Waterfalls - TLC
Creep - TLC
Walkin' On The Sun - Smashmouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjL...ng - Sugar Ray
Smooth - Santana and Rob Thomas
Just A Girl - No Doubt
Trapped In A Box - No Doubt
Stupid Girl - Garbage
Back & Forth - Aaliyah

Been listening to alot of Bjork last few days her album Debut or Post are great introductions.
Garbage their debut Garbage and Version 2.0 contain some great songs.
Tori Amos
Early Pj Harvey
Alanis Morrissette- Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie great albums

90s R&B is MY vibe

Pretty much anything from Brandy, especially the Never Say Never album. The track 'Almost Doesn't Count' just blows me away every time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VezzXopQnkU

All good 90s tunes off the top of my head:

The Cranberries - Linger
Skunk Anansie - Hedonism
Lisa Leob - Stay
Scarlet - Independent Love Song
Blur - Beetlebum
Elastica - Stutter
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy
Garbage - Special
Puressence - This Feeling
Sleeper - Sale of the Century
Ben Folds Five - Brick
No Doubt - Spiderwebs
Opus III - It's a Fine Day
Oceanic - Insanity
The Shamen - Destination Eschaton

After the 80's, the 90's is my favourite decade for music. My preference is electronic music, but do also listen some other stuff.

Here's a selection of tracks I like:

Heather Nova - Walk This World
Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money
Tricky - Overcome
Leftfield - Open Up
Nush - U Girls (Look So Sexy)
Aphex Twin - Ageispolis
Underworld - Rez
Smooth Touch - Come and Take a Trip
DJ Rolando - Jaguar

Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song

Well now. I could pretty much dump half my music collection in this thread given 90s stuff was for many years my jam.

There's an existing 90s and 00s thread, running since 2011 and now standing at 26 pages, which includes a great many forgotten gems - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1485695 - and quite a few of the ones I'd cite have already been tipped the wink there.

But just for a kick-off, and off the top of my head, why not check out:
Rialto
The Supernaturals
Hurricane #1
Mansun
Llama Farmers
Shed Seven
Travis
Space
The Bluetones
Suede
Gene
Spacehog
The Lightning Seeds
Ben Folds Five
Sleeper
Lo-Fidelity Allstars

As I say, if I really dig into the bowels of my disc-bag I could probably surface something even rarer, but that little bunch should keep us busy for now...

Just downloaded this today, you never hear it today do you. I was only born in '89 but I remember it, love the 90s.

Here are some of my suggestions:

Stay - Shakespears Sister
Crush - Jennifer Paige
Bitch - Meredith Brooks
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
Too Blind To See It - Kym Sims
Steal My Sunshine - LEN
Crazy For You - Let Loose
Baby Baby - Amy Grant
To The Moon & Back - Savage Garden
Hold On - Wilson Phillips

I could go on forever

Buddy Holly - Weezer

Doll Parts - Hole

Alive - Pearl Jam

Surely someone's mentioned Nirvana already?

Tricky
The Orb
Underworld
Portishead
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
The Super Furry Animals
Belle & Sebastian
JJ72
Frank Black
Morrissey
The Auteurs
Phoenix
The Supernaturals
Ash
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Deus
Mr Bungle
Soundgarden
Beck
The Verve
New Order
Jeff Buckley
The Smashing Pumpkins
Massive Attack
Ooberman
Weezer
The Dandy Warhols
Pavement
Spiritualized


And the obvious...

REM
Oasis
U2
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blur
Pulp
The Stone Roses
Foo Fighters
Metallica
Guns n Roses
Pearl Jam
Bowie (started decades earlier but still had a strong output in the 90s)

* Some of these might have earlier beginnings or even later (JJ72, Phoenix possibly) but without me going googling facts and inconvenient things like that, these are what came to mind when I think of '90s music.

Do you want the obscure or the hits? And what kind of music do you like or dislike?

Try this for starters....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKpJR6QpWDA

Give Wide Open Space by Mansun and Line Up by Elastica a go. I have been heavily listening to my 90s faves these last couple of days, it's one of the best decades for music, with only the 70s really challenging it. Heading off to listen to Dummy by Portishead.

Gosh, everyone has mentioned so many great tracks already - the 90s really was packed with great songs. I turned 18 in the 90s & so had just started going out to pubs & clubs - I remember all of those songs playing in the pubs - great memories. Here are a few albums that I was addicted to in the 90s:-

George Michael - Older
The Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive (easy listening/R&B)
The Lighthouse Family - Postcards From Heaven (as above)
The Fugees - The Score (this was HUGE in the 90s)
The Spice Girls - Spice (Spice Girls burst onto the scene in the 90s)
The Spice Girls - Spiceworld
Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill (got me through my first heartbreak)

Have fun listening!

Thanks all, really appreciated